# The Miami — AI Crawler Policy
# Effective: 2026-05-08
# Site: https://themiami.org

## Summary

The Miami content is licensed for AI crawler use under the terms below.
Free crawling is permitted ONLY for: standards-compliant search indexing
(Googlebot, Bingbot, Yandex, etc.) where attribution is provided in
search results.

ALL OTHER AI/LLM use — training, inference, retrieval-augmented
generation, embeddings, vector indexing, real-time citation, or any
use that surfaces our content in an AI product — requires a paid
license.

## Pricing (USD)

  $0.01 per HTTP request
  $0.05 per full article fetched
  $250 for bulk archive (entire site, point-in-time snapshot)
  $5,000 per year for unlimited access

Volume discounts negotiable for >100k requests/month.

## How to pay

  1. TollBit (recommended): https://tollbit.com — bot pays per request
  2. Scalepost:              https://scalepost.com
  3. Cloudflare Pay-Per-Crawl: enabled on this domain
  4. Direct invoice:         email editor@nexcom.media

## What you get

  - Full archive access in JSON Feed v1.1, Atom 1.0, or custom format
  - Schema.org structured data for every article
  - Topic + entity tags
  - Up-to-date freshness signals
  - Attribution clause: cite "The Miami" + URL when surfacing content

## What we ask in return

  - Identifiable User-Agent (no spoofing)
  - Respect robots.txt rate limits
  - Pay invoices within 30 days
  - Provide attribution wherever our content surfaces in your product
  - Notify us of major use cases (helps us tier pricing fairly)

## What is NOT permitted

  - Free training on our content
  - Free real-time augmentation
  - Republishing under your brand without attribution
  - Bypassing this paywall via residential proxies / UA spoofing

## Contact

Email: editor@nexcom.media
Sponsor inquiries: https://themiami.org/sponsor
Machine-readable: https://themiami.org/.well-known/ai-paywall.json